Results of games over the holidays that involved ECAC teams (my last report
was three weeks ago, so most of this is old news... oh, well):
Friday, December 18
HARVARD 6, Dartmouth 4
Saturday, December 19
Great Western Freezeout (Los Angeles, CA):
Lake Superior 3, Princeton 1
Sunday, December 20
Great Western Freezeout:
Consolation:
Western Michigan 6, Princeton 3
Monday, December 28
Moscow Spartak 10, PRINCETON 3 (exhibition)
Tuesday, December 29
Cleveland Hockey Classic (Cleveland, OH):
Bowling Green 8, Cornell 7 (OT)
RPI Invitational (Troy, NY):
Providence 4, Clarkson 3 (OT)
RPI 5, UMass-Lowell 3
UNH Holiday Tournament (Durham, NH):
Dartmouth 4, NEW HAMPSHIRE 3
Northeastern 7, Vermont 3
Wednesday, December 30
Cleveland Hockey Classic:
Consolation:
Ohio State 3, Cornell 0
RPI Invitational:
Consolation:
Clarkson 3, UMass-Lowell 1
Final:
Providence 5, RPI 4 (OT)
UNH Holiday Tournament:
Consolation:
NEW HAMPSHIRE 4, Vermont 1
Final:
Dartmouth 5, Northeastern 4
Friday, January 1, 1993
MERRIMACK 2, Union 0
Saturday, January 2
Kent 5, COLGATE 5 (OT)
NEW HAMPSHIRE 4, Rpi 3
Yale 8, NORTHEASTERN 7 (OT)
Dexter Classic (Orono, ME):
Brown 6, Lake Superior 4
Mariucci Classic (Minneapolis, MN):
St. Lawrence 7, Illinois-Chicago 1
Sunday, January 3
HARVARD 5, Boston College 2
Kent 5, COLGATE 5 (OT)
Vermont 3, MERRIMACK 3 (OT)
Dexter Classic:
Final:
MAINE 12, Brown 4
Mariucci Classic:
Final:
Ferris State 4, St. Lawrence 1
Also, a non-ECAC exhibition score from Saturday: Alabama Huntsville 4,
Royal Military College 2.
ECAC standings as of 1/4/93:
League Overall
Team W L T Pts GF GA W L T Pts GF GA
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Harvard 9 0 1 19 47 26 10 1 1 21 55 32
Yale 5 1 2 12 40 27 6 4 2 14 55 47
RPI 5 2 0 10 29 18 7 4 2 16 51 38
St. Lawrence 5 3 0 10 30 18 9 4 1 19 63 38
Vermont 4 3 0 8 20 19 6 7 2 14 43 50
Brown 4 4 0 8 35 31 5 7 0 10 52 59
Princeton 3 5 0 6 28 39 5 7 0 10 43 50
Clarkson 2 4 2 6 33 26 6 6 2 14 66 37
Cornell 2 3 1 5 16 24 2 6 1 5 23 42
Dartmouth 1 5 0 2 15 27 3 7 0 6 28 48
Union 1 5 0 2 12 31 1 8 0 2 21 44
Colgate 0 6 0 0 18 37 2 8 3 7 55 62
A few notes on the second Kent-Colgate game:
Kent 5, Colgate 5 (OT)
Right wing Andrew Dickson's two goals helped the Red Raiders salvage
their second straight 5-5 tie with the Golden Flashes. Kent raced out
to a 2-0 lead on first-period goals by Dean Sylvester and Roger
Mischke, but Clayton Fahey cut the deficit in half with 16 seconds to
go in the first. Claude Morin restored the Golden Flashes' two-goal
lead with a controversial tally at the end of the period, when it was
ruled that the puck had crossed the line before the buzzer had sounded.
Morin struck again with a power-play marker 1:48 into the middle period
to put his team up 4-1, but then the Colgate offense came alive, scoring
four straight times to put the Red Raiders in the lead. Brent Wilde beat
Kent goalie Paul Dixon at the 4:34 mark, and then Dickson got one with
Colgate a man up four minutes later. Bruce Gardiner tied the score at
9:05 of the third, and Dickson's second goal of the night, coming at
13:33, put the Red Raiders ahead. But Colgate couldn't savor their lead
for long, as on the ensuing faceoff, David Dartsch raced up the ice and
beat Colgate goalie (and Ithaca NY product) Jason Gates to tie the game
again 12 seconds later. Gates, a sophomore who was starting only his
second collegiate game, finished with 21 saves, while Dixon recorded 29.
The Syracuse _Post-Standard_ points to a couple of possible reasons for Col-
gate's sluggish 0-6 start in league play. Marcel Richard, who was the leading
goal-scorer last season for the Red Raiders, has been out with mono, and the
top two goaltenders, Shawn Murray and Matt Weder, have been wretched, with
GAA's of 4.19 and 6.44 respectively. In addition, Colgate has played a tough
early schedule (as has travel partner Cornell), with trips to the North
Country and Harvard among their first six games. One other problem, according
to the _Post-Standard_, may be the different style prefered by new head coach
Don Vaughan. The defense that Vaughan implemented is somewhat more complex
than what the team was used to under the late Terry Slater, and that has
caused trouble on the offensive side, where Vaughan is trying to install an
aggressive style of play.
With one-third of the season gone (44 of 132 league games), here are the
ECAC's statistical leaders (league games only):
Individual:
Goals - 11, Matt Mallgrave, Harvard
Assists - 12, Ted Drury, Harvard and Mark Kaufmann, Yale
Points - 21, Drury
Power-play goals - 5, Kaufmann
Penalty minutes - 45, Spencer Meany, St. Lawrence
Saves - 219, Christian Soucy, Vermont
Save percentage - 0.933, Brady Giroux, St. Lawrence
Shutouts - 2, Tripp Tracy, Harvard
GAA - 1.80, Giroux
Team:
Offense (goals per game) - 4.90, Yale
Defense (goals allowed per game) - 2.25, St. Lawrence
Penalty minutes per game - 29.5, Princeton
Penalty killing - 92.3%, RPI
Power play - 41.5%, Yale
The second weekend of the new year finds the ECAC with a full slate of games
for the first time in a month or so. This weekend's schedule:
Friday, January 8
Brown at Clarkson
Colgate at Dartmouth
Cornell at Vermont
Harvard at St. Lawrence
Princeton at RPI
Yale at Union
Saturday, January 9
Brown at St. Lawrence
Colgate at Vermont
Cornell at Dartmouth
Harvard at Clarkson
Princeton at Union
Yale at RPI
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